Inspired by a note making the rounds on FaceBook I decided to create my own list of books. The title of this blog is modelled after some principles in this blog. The list is not in order of importance but rough chronology.
Now as this is meant to be interactive so please leave comments. Feel free to comment as you desire but if you’d like to copy my formatting and compare the markup on the list: copy this list into the comments and:
Embolden those books you've read in their entirety;
Italicize the ones you either have read only an excerpt or started but didn't finish;
*Star ones you own;
?Question ones you’ve never heard of the title;
^Caret ones you’ve never heard of the author;
At the bottom put a series of numbers summarizing your markings.
I encourage discussions on the list. What should I have included? what should I have left out? And while this post took far more work than I anticipated it’s only one blogger’s opinion; don’t get too elated if you’ve read several of these books.
Without further ado, enjoy.
1 *The Bible
2 Didache
4 Dialogue with Trypho — Justin Martyr
5 Against Heresies — Irenaeus
6 De Carne Christi —Tertullian
7 De Unitate Ecclesiae — Cyprian
8 Ecclesiastical History — Eusebius
9 Orations Against the Arians — Athanasius
10 On the Holy Spirit — Basil the Great
11 Collected Homilies — John Chrysostom
12 *Confessions — Augustine
13 *The City of God — Augustine
14 Enchiridion — Augustine
15 The Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede
16 ?On Loving God — Bernard of Clairvaux
17 Cur Deus Homo? — Anselm
18 ?Sic et Non — Peter Abelard
19 Four Books of Sentences — Peter Lombard
20 Summa Theologica — Thomas Aquinas
21 Summa Contra Gentiles — Thomas Aquinas
22 Divine Comedy — Dante
23 The Cause of God Against the Pelagians — Thomas Bradwardine
24 Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis
25 Mirror for Christians — Dietrich Coelde
26 Commentary on the Psalms — Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
27 In Praise of Folly — Desiderius Erasmus
28 *95 Theses — Martin Luther
29 *The Freedom of the Christian — Martin Luther
30 *Commentary on Galatians — Martin Luther
31 67 Theses — Ulrich Zwingli
32 On True and False Religion — Ulrich Zwingli
33 *Decades — Heinrich Bullinger
34 Loci Communes — Phillipp Melanchthon
35 Loci Communes — Peter Martyr Vermigli
36 *The Institutes of Christian Religion — John Calvin
37 Commentaries — John Calvin
38 *Treatise on Relics — John Calvin
39 *Heidelberg Catechism — Zacharius Ursinius
40 Icones — Theodore Beza
41 The History of the Reformation in Scotland — John Knox
42 The Bruised Reed — Richard Sibbs
43 *The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment — Jeremiah Burroughs
44 *Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices — Thomas Brooks
45 *The Death of Death in the Death of Christ — John Owen
46 Communion with God — John Owen
47 *The Mortification of Sin — John Owen
48 The Christian in Complete Armour — William Gurnall
49 *The Sinfulness of Sin (org. Sin: that Plague of Plagues) — Ralph Venning
50 Institutes of Elenctic Theology — Francis Turretin
51 *Pilgrim’s Progress — John Bunyan
52 *Grace Abounding — John Bunyan
54 The Marrow of Modern Divinity — Edward Fisher
55 The Crook in the Lot — Thomas Boston
56 The Fourfold State of Man — Thomas Boston
57 The Christian’s Reasonable Service — Wilhelmus à Brakel
58 The Economy of the Covenants between God and Man — Hermann Witsius
59 *Charity and its Fruits — Jonathan Edwards
60 *Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God — Jonathan Edwards
61 Resolutions — Jonathan Edwards
62 The Christian Faith — Friedrich Schleiermacher
63 History of the Reformation — J. H. Merle d’Aubigné
64 Systematic Theology — Charles Hodge
65 The Mystical Presence — John Nevin
66 ?Either/Or — Søren Kierkegaard
67 The Sickness Unto Death — Søren Kierkegaard
68 Commentary on the Confession of Faith — A A Hodge
69 The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible — B B Warfield
70 The Person and Work of Christ — B B Warfield
71 *Morning and Evening — Charles Spurgeon
72 Lectures on Calvinism — Abraham Kuyper
73 *Reformed Dogmatics — Herman Bavinck
74 *Systematic Theology — Louis Berkhoff
75 *Biblical Theology — Geerhardus Vos
76 Pauline Eschatology — Geerhardus Vos
77 Orthodoxy — G K Chesterton
78 *Christianity and Liberalism — Gresham Machen
79 Church Dogmatics — Karl Barth
80 The Defense of the Faith — Cornelius Van Til
81 *Mere Christianity — C S Lewis
82 *Till We Have Faces — C S Lewis
84 The Cost of Discipleship — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
85 *Your God is Too Small — J B Phillips
86 The Bible and the Future — Anthony Hoekema
87 *The Pursuit of Holiness — Jerry Bridges
88 *Concise Theology — J I Packer
89 *Luther: Man Between God and Devil — Heiko Oberman
90 *The Christian Life — Sinclair Ferguson
91 *Children of the Living God — Sinclair Ferguson
92 The Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses — Vern Poythress
93 *Putting Amazing Back into Grace — Michael Horton
95 *The Reason for God — Tim Keller
96 *The Wages of Spin — Carl Trueman
97 Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics — Richard Muller
98 *The Big Picture Story Bible — David Helm
99 *The Jesus Storybook Bible — Sally Lloyd-Jones
100 *Calvin — Bruce Gordon
25/30/*41/?3/^0
Again, have fun leaving comments.
